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Please pray for the repose of the soul of my grandmother. She died at the age of 95 onFriday and is to be buried on Wednesday.

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"O Cross of Christ, all-holy, thrice-blessed, and life-giving, instrument of the mystical rites of Zion, the holy Altar for the service of our Great Archpriest, the blessing - the weapon - the strength of priests, our pride, our consolation, the light in our hearts, our mind, and our steps"Met. Meletios of Nikopolis & Preveza, from his ordination.

As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS

Thanks to all. I was very close to her since my childhood. my heart will have a big hole in it until the day I die.

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Men may dislike truth, men may find truth offensive and inconvenient, men may persecute the truth, subvert it, try by law to suppress it. But to maintain that men have the final power over truth is blasphemy, and the last delusion. Truth lives forever, men do not.-- Gustave Flaubert

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

My two grandmas were very special to me, too. My parents were both scientists and worked very long hours when I was little, so I was, essentially, raised by my two grandmothers and my grandfather (all three retired). My maternal granndmother died when she was 79, in an instant (transmural infarction and rupture of the heart), and my paternal grandmother died very slowly, in about 8 years, succumbing to Alzheimer's; she reposed when she was 82.

Is it true that Russian/Ukrainian/Slavic people tend to be very close to their grandmothers? This seems to be what I have both noticed and heard. Is there some cultural factor that makes this more so then in other societies?

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Men may dislike truth, men may find truth offensive and inconvenient, men may persecute the truth, subvert it, try by law to suppress it. But to maintain that men have the final power over truth is blasphemy, and the last delusion. Truth lives forever, men do not.-- Gustave Flaubert